Followers

[Corvanther]

After a little bit they stop, well, following. My fighter hireling on my cleric must be manually told to come to me, then he will never move from that spot. On my mage her skeleton is the same. They work for a little bit but after a couple battles they just sit wherever they fought their last monster and never move till I am attacked and then they run all the way across the zone to me, then eaither I am dead or the mob is. Said pet/hireling then sits in THAT spot till I get attacked again and then runs across the zone etc, unless manually told to come to me.

[Jade12345]

Sometimes hirelings just suck.

But are you sure you aren't accidentally hitting the "become passive" or "stand ground" or "defend" mode button? It's easy to not realize you accidentally clicked something on the hireling's hotbar

But I find I frequently have to click the command that tells hirelings to "come to me;" one trick I discovered is if I'm running and on the move, I click the "come to me" footsteps icon while running, they start to follow and run behind me as long as I stay moving....beats stopping, commanding them to come, waiting, repeat, etc.